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Transcript: Sociologist E. Digby Baltzell Dies; Coined `WASP'
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- August 19, 1996
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University of Pennsylvania sociologist E. Digby Baltzell died Saturday
in Boston at the age of 80. Professort Baltzell coined the term ``WASP'
' to refer to his ethno-sociological heritage.
ROBERT SIEGEL: It is no small achievement to coin a name for something,
to contribute a word to the language, to stake out boundaries of
meaning that define a new idea and as a result make us think a little
differently. That is what E. Digby Baltzell did. Professor Baltzell,
who was an institution at the University of Pennsylvania, died Saturday
night at age 80.
In the 1960s, E. Digby Baltzell, a sociologist, was writing about
the decline of the Protestant ...